Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2022 to Question 112640 on Tobacco: Mortality Rates, if he will conduct a comparative assessment of the public health risks of snus in comparison to smoking tobacco.
The Department has no plans to conduct such an assessment. Snus is banned in the United Kingdom and we have no plans to introduce additional tobacco products to the market. Alternative tobacco-free products exist, such as nicotine pouches.